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5 Questions With Dr. Hugh Mighty on Diversity and Health Care | Healthiest Communities Health News

5 Questions With Dr. Hugh Mighty on Diversity and Health Care | Healthiest Communities Health News

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Key Black leaders in health care converged in the nation’s capital this week to take part in a two-day summit focused on health equity, examining how approaches are evolving to meet the needs of vulnerable communities and how executives can address hurdles and headwinds standing in the way of meaningful change. Among the summit’s participants was Dr. Hugh Mighty, senior vice president for health affairs at Howard University – one of the few historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S. with a medical school. U.S. News & World Report caught up with Mighty – an OB-GYN with extensive experience in medical higher education – to discuss the current state of efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion within health care, as well as the direction those efforts need to go. The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. Michael Robinson Chavez|The Washington Post|Getty Images Dr. Hugh Mighty receives a coronavirus vaccine at Howard University Hospital in 2020 in Washington, D.C. What would you say is the greatest challenge in the effort to …

Minorities being humiliated for ‘political gain’, London mayor Sadiq Khan says | Politics News

Minorities being humiliated for ‘political gain’, London mayor Sadiq Khan says | Politics News

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There is a “concerted attempt” to “humiliate minorities for political gain”, London’s mayor has said. Referencing the “level of debate in public life”, Sadiq Khan also claimed the prime minister had failed properly to condemn remarks made about him by Tory MP Lee Anderson. The former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party claimed just over a week ago that Islamists had “got control” of Mr Khan and London, while expressing concerns about “racist abuse” during pro-Palestinian marches. He has since lost the Tory whip. Mr Khan was speaking 24 hours after a speech in Downing Street by Rishi Sunak, who said “forces at home” had been “trying to take advantage” of the human suffering caused by the Israel-Hamas war to “advance a divisive, hateful, ideological agenda”. Mr Sunak took to the lectern outside Number 10 after the victory of George Galloway in the Rochdale by-election this week, with the prime minister saying the incoming Workers Party of Britain MP “dismisses the horror of what happened on 7 October” when Hamas killed about 1,200 people in …

Social support linked to lower risk of compulsive sexual behaviors among sexual minorities

Social support linked to lower risk of compulsive sexual behaviors among sexual minorities

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The Journal of Sex Research recently published findings that show how cisgender sexual minorities with higher levels of social support exhibit fewer symptoms of compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) and problematic pornography use (PPU). Conversely, those facing discrimination due to their sexual orientation and engaging in sexualized drug use tend to report increased severity of these conditions. Understanding CSBD, a condition recently classified in the International Classification of Diseases, is crucial in addressing sexual health comprehensively. CSBD is an individual’s persistent inability to control intense sexual urges — leading to distressing or disruptive behaviors. Problematic pornography use, a significant manifestation of CSBD, involves excessive consumption of pornography to the point of causing interpersonal or individual distress. Previous studies have highlighted a heightened vulnerability among sexual minorities, hypothesized to stem from the unique stressors this group faces. However, comprehensive studies exploring these associations within sexual minorities are not as common. The motivation behind this study was to explore the under-researched area of CSBD and PPU within the sexual minority population. Researchers aimed to understand how factors …

Tim Scott: ‘Trump did more for minorities than Biden will ever do’

Tim Scott: ‘Trump did more for minorities than Biden will ever do’

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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on Wednesday shot back at those criticizing his endorsement of former President Trump, and claimed the former president “did more for minorities” than President Biden has. Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, was asked by Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham if he expected scrutiny from the left for his support of Trump, who has had a history of controversial remarks regarding race. Scott told Ingraham he was not expecting the criticism, but he does “expect the left to lose their mind because Donald Trump did more for minorities than Joe Biden…will ever do.” “Think about the fact that Donald Trump put more money in historically black colleges and universities [HBCU] than any other president,” Scott continued. During Trump’s time in the White House, he claimed unwavering support for historically black colleges and universities, and once said the institutions “never had better champions in the White House.” Trump, in 2019, signed a bipartisan bill to permanently provide over $250 million a year to the nation’s HBCUs, as well as several …

new report reveals the ‘toxic culture’ keeping women and ethnic minorities out of specialist squads

new report reveals the ‘toxic culture’ keeping women and ethnic minorities out of specialist squads

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Hundreds of London’s Metropolitan police officers temporarily turned in their firearms in September after the Crown Prosecution Service charged an officer with the murder of unarmed 24-year-old Chris Kaba. Up to 300 of the force’s 2,500 armed officers stepped back from their duties, leading the Met to request backup support from the army. Met commissioner Mark Rowley suggested that officers were concerned about having “sufficient legal protection to enable them to do their job.” Police shootings are rare, and rarer still are prosecutions. There have been only a handful of murder and manslaughter charges for officers following deaths in police custody, and just one has led to a successful prosecution. Firearms officers are a voluntary role, and in recent years, forces have been struggling to fill their ranks. In a newly published report for the National Police Chiefs Council, my colleagues and I found that a high number of officers felt “scrutiny following a police shooting” was the greatest barrier to them being recruited to a firearms squad. But all is not well within these …

Dementia risk factors pose more danger for ethnic minorities, finds study | Dementia

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The most common risk factors for dementia appear to have a more pronounced effect in black and Asian people, a study suggests, prompting calls for greater efforts to tackle health inequalities. The number of adults living with dementia worldwide is on course to nearly triple to 153 million by 2050. Experts say the disease presents a major and rapidly growing threat to future health and social care systems in every community, country and continent. Researchers have long known that some of the biggest risk factors for dementia, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, are more common in ethnic minorities. New research suggests that not only are some risk factors more common in ethnic minorities, they also have a greater impact on their risk of developing the disease compared with white people. The study, published in the journal Plos One, did not establish why. But researchers said it appeared the impact of risk factors such as diabetes and obesity were “magnified” among some ethnic groups. A team led by Naaheed Mukadam, of University College London, …

Trump’s Menacing Rosh Hashanah Message to American Jews

Trump’s Menacing Rosh Hashanah Message to American Jews

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The former president’s anti-Jewish remarks follow an old pattern. Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty September 19, 2023, 10:10 AM ET Like most politicians, former President Donald Trump marked the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, by passing along holiday greetings to American Jews. Unlike most politicians, Trump used the opportunity to threaten them. On Sunday evening, just as Rosh Hashanah was coming to a close, Trump posted a meme on his social-media platform, Truth Social, excoriating “liberal Jews” who had “voted to destroy America.” (Majorities of American Jews have voted for Democrats since before World War II.) “Let’s hope you learned from your mistake,” the caption continued, “and make better choices going forward!” Trump’s Rosh Hashanah broadside was far from the first time that he had shared objectionable sentiments about Jewish people. But it was particularly ugly in the way it deliberately singled out a specific constituency during that constituency’s holiest season. As the conservative writer Philip Klein wrote in National Review, “Color me skeptical that Trump’s defenders would be so understanding …

For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life

For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life

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Bad data does not only produce bad outcomes. It can also help to suppress sections of society, for instance vulnerable women and minorities. This is the argument of my new book on the relationship between various forms of racism and sexism and artificial intelligence (AI). The problem is acute. Algorithms generally need to be exposed to data – often taken from the internet – in order to improve at whatever they do, such as screening job applications, or underwriting mortgages. But the training data often contains many of the biases that exist in the real world. For example, algorithms could learn that most people in a particular job role are male and therefore favour men in job applications. Our data is polluted by a set of myths from the age of “enlightenment”, including biases that lead to discrimination based on gender and sexual identity. Judging from the history in societies where racism has played a role in establishing the social and political order, extending privileges to white males –- in Europe, North America and Australia, …

French universalism sidelines ethnic minorities – why that must change

French universalism sidelines ethnic minorities – why that must change

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French MP Olivier Serva has urged his government to tackle discrimination against people with afro hair. In a recent interview on the national radio station France Info, he reportedly introduced plans to present a cross-party bill to parliament by appealing to the republic’s values of “liberty, equality, fraternity”. He said: This is about allowing everyone to be as they are and as they want to be, whether in it’s in the workplace or anywhere else. Diversity in the public sphere is not something French republicanism, as it is currently defined, does very well. As opposed to the American and British approach to immigration that has tended to promote multiculturalism, Republican France espouses an “assimilationist” model. Olivier Serva (centre), representative of the 1st constituency of Guadeloupe in the French National Assembly. Abaca Press/Alamy There is broad political consensus, from the left to the far right, that what matters is to integrate minorities, culturally, into the national community. People are free to entertain personal allegiances, as individuals, as long as they integrate into the national community and …